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Dangerous, serving Citatio in that quarter: and by what art try to smuggle it into the hands of such a one? 'Insinuate it here into his, Plotho's, hand; that is the method, and that will suffice! say the wigs, and choose an unfortunate Reichs Notary, Dr.
"And now please, how long have you been married?" "About ten months." "Any family?" "One boy about a fortnight old. Do come down to Sunch'ston and see him he is your own nephew. You speak Erewhonian so perfectly that no human being would suspect you were a foreigner, and you look one of us from head to foot. I can smuggle you through quite easily, and my mother would so like to see you."
When Orgell needed trusted men to deliver messages to and from the boats as well as to smuggle off material, he usually called upon the American branch of the Stahlhelm, or Steel Helmets, which used to drill secretly in anticipation of Der Tag in this country.
I'm afraid so, my dear in fact, he don't deny it!" whispered back the matron. "Well, I think it's strange a man that smuggles can't lie!" "Well, I don't know, my dear may be he thinks it's no harm to smuggle, and he knows it would be a sin to lie. But where is your uncle, Miss Capitola?" "Gone around to the stable to blow Jem up for mounting on a lame horse.
He told of Cossack life in the old days: of his father, 'The Broad', who alone had carried on his back a boar's carcass weighing three hundredweight, and drank two pails of chikhir at one sitting. He told of his own days and his chum Girchik, with whom during the plague he used to smuggle felt cloaks across the Terek.
He shut the door, took out the pocket case, and gave one glance at the portrait, and then took an unopened letter which had come that evening and which, by his deft handling of the mail, he had been able to smuggle into his pocket without John Minute's observance. He slit open the envelope, extracted the letter, and read: DEAR SIR: Your esteemed favor is to hand.
Among the causes of regret, however, which are inseparable from the delay attending this transaction it is proper to state that satisfactory information has been received that measures have been recently adopted by designing persons to convert certain parts of the Province of East Florida into depots for the reception of foreign goods, from whence to smuggle them into the United States.
Besides, the minister has a little smack of the sexton about him; he comes when people are in extremis, but they don't send for him every time they make a slight moral slip tell a lie, for instance, or smuggle a silk dress through the custom-house: but they call in the doctor when the child is cutting a tooth or gets a splinter in its finger.
How he wished that he might have escorted her into the dining room, but Mrs. de Tracy was his portion as usual, and Robinette was waiting for Carnaby, who seemed unaccountably slow. "Your arm, Middy, when you are quite ready," she said to him at last. Carnaby's extraordinary unreadiness seemed to arise from his trying to smuggle some object up his sleeve.
Love and veneration for the English name Celebration of the Ayd-Kebir, or great festival. Value of Money in Morocco. Juvenile Strolling Singer. General account of the city of Tangier. Intercourse between the Moorish Emperor and the Foreign Consuls. Cockney sportsmen. The degrading of high Moorish Functionaries. How we smuggle Cattle from Tangier to Gibraltar.
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